Beginning to wonder if they just don’t want this feature, like Macros. It’s a years old, repetitive request. You can spill DCAs but you can’t process on them, it would make set up and fader use far cleaner and simpler if a group could also spill.
@Nicola is there any official thought on this feature?
@tpaulding Plus, even though the DCA’s are non-processing, “not a real signal path”, it would be nice to see some use of the audio meter above them to ensure signal is passing through channels assigned to said DCA!
I’m just bringing this back up because I had to set up a new show file this weekend. I really missed having group spills during this process.
Now I realize that turning the group spill functionality would remove one method that can be used to assign inputs to groups (because when you press the “Mix” button of the group, only the member inputs would show up and not all inputs - so you can’t add new inputs to the group by pressing their “assign” key). But all A&H needs to do is to include an “Group Spill” setting that can be turned on/off just like the DCA spill setting. (Plus there are other methods to adding inputs to groups - like the routing page of each input).
I think ALL of us at some point are forced to burn DCAs simply to get this spill functionality when designing the fader layouts, but then it’s an awkward situation where you have both a group fader and a DCA fader. Having group spill functionality would allow us to stop using DCAs for this functionality and have a much more manageable/logical signal flow.
So please A&H, add this much desired feature soon…
This would be very helpful. Here’s hoping for 2.1… Who knows, maybe 2.1 can be a group heavy update by implementing group spill and group-to-group routing. Maybe…
@Brian, I agree. After initial setup, most of the time when I’m assigning something to a group, it’s from the input side Routing page.
I would +1 but I send my drums to individual groups (kick group, snare grp, toms grp, …) and thus to do a mix to sends we’ll need a disable group spill function too